def strip()

in obelics/processors/web_document_filtering.py [0:0]

• 17 lines of code
• 6 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    def strip(text, strip_characters):
        """Way faster than text.strip(strip_characters)
        since strip_characters is a set instead of a str,
        and it contains a lot of elements (all the emojis)."""
        if not text:
            return text
        beg_ind = 0
        end_ind = len(text)
        for i in range(len(text)):
            if text[i] in strip_characters:
                beg_ind += 1
            else:
                break
        for i in range(1, len(text) + 1):
            if text[-i] in strip_characters:
                end_ind -= 1
            else:
                break
        text_stripped = text[beg_ind:end_ind]
        return text_stripped